A aventura econômica na Amazônia: um estudo dos projetos de desenvolvimento econômico e social para o estado do Amazonas nos últimos 30 anos.

Abstract

The history of economic occupation of the Amazon and the State of Amazonas, in particular, is marked by great moments or cycles of development. The first one is the beginning of rational economic exploitation of the colony, started by Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo better known as Marquis of Pombal. The second is the extraction of latex from rubber trees, when the rubber produced from the latex of rubber trees was the great bulwark in the generation of wealth in the region. The third period is related to the historic moment of deploying "Great Projects" desenvolvimentistas for the region commanded by the federal government and up to the present day. This period, which also was known as the "Recent Occupation." It is this period the Bill of Manaus Free Zone (ZFM), emerged in the midst of the so-called "Operation Amazon." The Project ZFM has provided economic benefits to the region, particularly for Amazonas State and especially for Manaus city, because with the advent of the Manaus Free Zone, the state significantly increased its revenue. This study investigates the actions of state government to develop public policies to optimize these resources primarily on the generation of knowledge from the investment in education, particularly in high school and Vocational Education. Only a serious investment in education, not the perspective of economic theory of Human Capital, or the optics of Neoliberalism, but in view of the unitary school and polytechnic, you can leverage the development for the Amazon region in general and the Amazon in particular. Because despite the enormous financial resources by raising the state lacks public policies geared to the expansion of access to knowledge, especially through education.